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History of Colchester County, Subdivision A · Canada’s heritage registers
1 historic place on the heritage registers in Colchester County, Subdivision A
Colchester County, Subdivision A has kept more old homes than most towns: 36% were built before 1961, against 18%. Colchester County, Subdivision A has 2.6 for every 10,000 people, a higher rate than 88% of Canadian towns. There are also 2 listings on provincial or municipal registers with no open description, so no pages.
Historic places
1
2.6 per 10,000 residents
Highest designations
0
National Historic Sites and Classified Federal Heritage Buildings
Provincial and local listings
1
provincial and municipal listings with an encyclopedia article
Homes built before 1961
36%
typical town: 18%
The map
Where Colchester County, Subdivision A’s history is
Every place on the registers inside the town, by its designation.
Provincial and local listings
Names show on hover, and a tap takes you to the place’s page.
The 1, by tier
1 Provincial and local listings
The federal directory kept by Parks Canada supplies most of these places; provincial and municipal lists outside Québec aren’t open data, so only the ones Wikidata documents with an article appear.
Points from Wikidata (Parks Canada’s files carry none) and from Québec’s register, as mapped there.
Provincial and local listings
On a provincial or local list in Colchester County, Subdivision A: one place
Provincial and municipal listings that Wikidata records and an encyclopedia describes. Each one opens its own page.
The age of the area
Within 50 km of Colchester County, Subdivision A, the decades after Confederation left the most
The area here stretches to 50 km around Colchester County, Subdivision A: each historic place by the first construction date it records.
British North America 1760–18662
After Confederation 1867–19137
Wars and Depression 1914–19450
Since 1946 1946 on1
Thinkers' Lodge, in Cumberland County, Subdivision D, is the oldest (1800). The chart rests on 10 dated places within 50 km. Before Confederation: 2.
Around the town
Colchester County, Subdivision A’s surroundings: 10 historic places within 50 km
By age, Thinkers' Lodge leads, from 1800, at 48 km. Debert Palaeo-Indian Site, 19 km off, is the nearest of 4 top-tier places. Among them are 4 provincial or municipal listings, 4 National Historic Sites and a Recognized Federal Heritage Building.
The 10 nearest, within 50 km
| Lawrence HouseProvincially Registered Property · 1870 · 17 km away, in Enfield |
| Debert Palaeo-Indian SiteNational Historic Site · 1963 · 19 km away, in Colchester County, Subdivision B |
| ArmouryRecognized Federal Heritage Building · 1874–1875 · 30 km away, in Truro |
| Truro Post OfficeNational Historic Site · 1883–1887 · 31 km away, in Truro |
| Springhill Coal MiningNational Historic Site · 1873–1874 · 40 km away, in Springhill |
| Fraser Octagon HouseProvincially Registered Property · 1857 · 44 km away, in Colchester County, Subdivision B |
| Balmoral Grist Mill MuseumProvincially Registered Property · 1874 · 45 km away, in Colchester County, Subdivision B |
| Wallace Harbour Sector LighthouseHeritage Lighthouse · 1904 · 47 km away, in Cumberland County, Subdivision D |
| Pugwash railway stationMunicipally Registered Property · 1892 · 48 km away, in Cumberland County, Subdivision D |
| Thinkers' LodgeNational Historic Site · 1800–1900 · 48 km away, in Cumberland County, Subdivision D |
Homes by age
New homes are rare in Colchester County, Subdivision A: 3% from 2016–21, against a usual 4.1%
Colchester County, Subdivision A has an unusual share of homes built from 1981 to 2000: 30%, where most towns have 23%. Few of Colchester County, Subdivision A’s homes date from 2001 to 2015: 10%, the norm 15%. Homes built from 1961 to 1980 make up just 21% of Colchester County, Subdivision A’s, against 27% in the typical town.
36%
Before 1961
21%
1961–80
30%
1981–2000
10%
2001–15
3%
2016–21
Colchester County, Subdivision ATypical town
2021 Census, private dwellings by period of construction (Statistics Canada); the typical town is the middle Canadian town of 2,500 or more.
Born here
Natives of Colchester County, Subdivision A from 1824 to 1909
Most of them, 4 of 5, came into the world in the decades after Confederation. 5 people on the record were born here before 1914. The longest life was George Forrester Davidson’s: 86 years, to 1995. Best known is Archibald McLelan, with articles in 4 Wikipedia languages.
Archibald McLelan
Laurie D. Cox
Clarence Gillis
James Armand Meissner
George Forrester Davidson
1800182518501875190019251950
AM
Archibald McLelan1824–1890 · Canadian politician
Clarence Gillis1895–1960 · Former Canadian Politician
James Armand Meissner1896–1936 · American flying ace
LC
Laurie D. Cox1883–1968 · American landscape architect and lacrosse coach
GD
George Forrester Davidson1909–1995 · Canadian civil servant
Everyone born in Colchester County, Subdivision A → Born before 1914 (the page’s periods: Confederation to the First World War). Birthplaces from Wikidata, each checked against the person’s Wikipedia article.
Towns its size
Colchester County, Subdivision A has the 4th most of 16 towns its size
Towns of 3,900 to 3,900 residents, by places on the registers.
Colchester County, Subdivision A1
Just these have more: Cap-Santé, L'Islet and Saint-André-Avellin. The middle one has 0. 9 of them have none.
In brief
Colchester County, Subdivision A in brief
Colchester County, Subdivision A has 36% of its homes from before 1961, against 18% in the typical town. Together that makes 1 historic place. Of the 16 towns closest in size, just 3 have more historic places. Among the lives from its past: Archibald McLelan (1824), Clarence Gillis (1895) and James Armand Meissner (1896).
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
- The federal register. The federal list is complete and open: Parks Canada’s directory for the designations, the Canadian Register of Historic Places for what each one is and why it matters.
- Protection. Being on these registers doesn’t mean a building can’t change. Federal designation commemorates; protection is provincial or municipal, and those lists aren’t open here.
- Map points. Where a federal place sits on the map is Wikidata’s placing; the directory itself has no coordinates.
- The grade. This page gives no grade; history doesn’t count toward a Canadian town’s letter.
- Provincial and municipal lists. Provincial and municipal listings here come from Wikidata alone, since the provinces’ own registers can’t be reused; a listing needs an encyclopedia article to get a page.
- People and events. National historic persons carry no place in the open file. They appear on a town’s page when born there (same name, same birth and death years) or when a historic place inside it carries their name and its record names them with their dates; national historic events don’t appear.
- The tiers. The highest designations are National Historic Sites, Classified Federal Heritage Buildings and Québec’s classements; then come the other federal designations; then provincial and local listings.
Questions about Colchester County, Subdivision A’s history
How old are the homes in Colchester County, Subdivision A?
36% predate 1961, where the typical town has 18%.
How many historic places does Colchester County, Subdivision A have on the registers?
1 historic place inside Colchester County, Subdivision A, by the federal, Québec and Wikidata-known registers.
Why might a heritage building in Colchester County, Subdivision A be missing here?
Only federal designations are fully open outside Québec. 2 more listings in Colchester County, Subdivision A are known through Wikidata alone, so they are counted, not paged.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada (Parks Canada).
Sources: Parks Canada, Directory of Federal Heritage Designations · Canadian Register of Historic Places (federal extract) · Wikidata (CC0) for map points, other names and articles · Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (homes by period of construction). Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).